Author

Publication

2002 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

79,250 words, Guess

Page Count

317 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • Goodreads456909
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002019069
  • OCLC Control Number48958060
  • Better World Books9780375414657
  • Open LibraryOL3558385M

Classifications

  • DDC813/.6
  • LCCPS3613.A816 P53 2002
  • LCCPS3613.A816P53 2002

Description

"In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair. The piano belongs to an army surgeon-major whose unorthodox peacemaking methods - poetry, medicine, and now music - have brought a tentative quiet to the southern Shan States but have elicited questions from his superiors.". "On his journey through Europe, the Red Sea, India, and into Burma, Edgar meets soldiers, mystics, bandits, and talespinners, as well as an enchanting woman as elusive as the surgeon-major. And at the doctor's fort on a remote Burmese river, Edgar encounters a world more mysterious and dangerous than he ever could have imagined."--BOOK JACKET.

Description

"In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair. The piano belongs to an army surgeon-major whose unorthodox peacemaking methods - poetry, medicine, and now music - have brought a tentative quiet to the southern Shan States but have elicited questions from his superiors.". "On his journey through Europe, the Red Sea, India, and into Burma, Edgar meets soldiers, mystics, bandits, and talespinners, as well as an enchanting woman as elusive as the surgeon-major. And at the doctor's fort on a remote Burmese river, Edgar encounters a world more mysterious and dangerous than he ever could have imagined."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Places

BurmaLondonShan states

Times

1886-onwards19th century

Genres

  • Fiction

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